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Re: 767 Overhead

Drew, save yourself a heap of trouble (and money) and just go straight to Opencockpit Master cards and Nico's Lekseecon program. It will the only way you will be able to have your output states match up exactly to what the LevelD is doing.

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Re: 767 Overhead

Thanks mate, those switches look great and will do just fine for what i want to start with. Are they easy to wire? I'll go with open cockpits cards im thinking with what your saying What about rotary switches for the start, smoking, seatbelts etc...any recomendations?

Re: 767 Overhead

Any rotary switch (not only the ones from OC) can be interfaced with the Opencockpits Master Card, a n position rotary switch just needs n inputs and 1 ground.

More important is the number of degrees between two positions of a rotary switch. There are 30, 45 and 90 degrees per step. It depends on the function which one you should take. For the Seatbelts switch, for instance, a 45 degrees rotary switch is perfect.

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Re: 767 Overhead

Originally Posted by Drewsta

Hi guys, just enquiring wether or not you can use LEDs with the BUO836x for an overhead panel?

Hi,
Like others already have said, you cannot control leds with it.
For switches and encoders, Leo's card is a fine card, but certainly not the best solution for the Level-D 767, you will miss the opportunity to use lekseecon

Advice: Always choose the best software first (for the add-on you want to build a cockpit for), and then look for the hardware requirements based on that software.

For the Level-D 767 the SIOC/lekseecon combination is by far the best solution for home cockpit builders. You will have 900 pre-defined SIOC variables at your disposal, with which you can interface almost any button, switch, rotary switch, encoder, led, digit, what have you ?... of the level-D 767. On top of that you get extra functionality such as leading (always synchronised) hardware switches (over the switches in the panel), cold and dark cockpit support and lights test support.

However, SIOC only runs with Opencockpits hardware, so the choice is easy, only use Opencockpits hardware.